They both had been drinking that night and he confirmed he had too much alcohol to drive.

Asked if Ms Landry was careful with the amount she drank he replied "No".

She was breastfeeding their baby at the time of the fight and Ms Nightingale said Ms Landry "barely consumed alcohol" at that time.

"No," Mr Bell said.

He later denied she "modified" her drinking after she was diagnosed with a serious heart condition.

Sgt Nightingale suggested he had put pressure on Ms Landry not to say anything to the police when they arrived the next morning.

She put it to him he made comments like "you can't do this to us" and, if she did make a complaint, he would "take her down" and have her mentally assessed.

Mr Bell said none of that was true.

'SHE WOULD BUY PERSONAL EFFECTS FOR HERSELF'

Mr Bell said Ms Landry spent $1000 of his money each week on groceries and "personal effects for herself".

One of Ms Landry's accusations about her husband is that he was "financially mean" to her.

Kelly Landry leaving court. Source:News Corp Australia

"She would buy personal effects for herself."

Ms Nightingale put it to him that his wife would regularly have to ask his secretary for money to pay for things such as children's clothes "on a weekly basis".

Mr Bell denied that was true.

"If she needed extra money she asked for it. She would ask me at home and she got it."

If something around the house had to be fixed and their was an invoice from a tradesman that needed paying, she could send the invoice to a staff member who would then arrange payment, he told Downing Centre Local Court.

Ms Nightingale produced a series of bank statements that showed purchases for children, including Pottery Barn for kids.

But he denied the money used to pay for the children's clothes was from her weekly $1000 allowance.

The court heard Ms Landry stopped working at the Nine Network in late 2011 when she was pregnant with their first child.

The weekly money was deposited onto her credit card by automatic payment when he was the sole income earner, he said.

He agreed this was her only income at that time.

Ms Nightingale asked him if he recalled a number of occasions when Ms Landry was forced to ring him for help when she had been stuck without money - including being trapped twice in carparks and once when she was with a friend and needed money for dinner.